Terry Pratchett’s busily working on ideas for a TV series based around The Watch from his Discworld novels. Here are some of them from the mouth of the great man himself:
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Year: 2011
News
Wednesday’s “250 CSI episodes” news
Film
- Alan Rickman joins Gambit
- Dune rights expire
Radio
- Radio 3’s Wuthering Heights to feature swearing
Theatre
- Natalie Casey replaces Denise Van Outen on Legally Blonde
- Christopher Eccleston and Tamsin Greig to star in In The Beginning at Westminster Abbey
Books
- New Chitty Chitty Bang Bang books to be written
British TV
- Overnight BBC programmes to be cut?
- Spartacus gets 482,000 viewers
- Monday night ratings
US TV
- S Epatha Merkerson joins pilot
- TNT passes on Bird Dog and The Rabbit Factory
- Southland gets a fourth season, Perception is picked up
- Judd Hirsch joins Damages
- No more Mad Men until 2012 at the earliest?
- Perfect Couples pulled, replaced with The Paul Reiser Show
Sitting Tennant
Sitting Tennant (week 10, 2011)
It’s a new arrival to Sitting Tennant corner who gets the 10 points this week, so give a warm welcome to Janice everyone – hello, Janice! Caption her Tennant how you will…
- Hebbie: 50
- Sister Chastity: 30
- Rullsenberg: 20
- Toby, Janice, Erin C: 10
Meanwhile in captionland, a lot of excellent contributions but the winners were Rullsenberg and Lisa G. 10 points to each of them and a big thanks (and 5 points) to everyone else for contributing!
- Rullsenberg: 50
- Marie: 45
- Toby: 40
- SK, Electric Dragon, theriverlady, Lisa G: 30
- Jane Henry: 25
- Joe B, Virpi: 10
- Hebbie: 5
Good luck this week everyone. And there might be a little surprise on Friday…
Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below or email me and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery. Don’t forget to include your name in the filename so I don’t get mixed up about who sent it to me.
The best pic in the stash each week will appear on Tuesday and get ten points.
You can also enter the witty and amusing captions league table by commenting on the photo, the best caption getting 10 points, everyone who contributes getting five points.
Tuesday’s “no Kate Winslet this time” news
Doctor Who
- BBC sued over Davros
- Michael Sheen to voice a character
Film
British TV
- Julian Fellowes to write Titanic mini-series, adapt Agatha Christie’s Crooked House
- Mrs Brown’s Boys gets a second series
- Fourth series of Merlin to get 13 episodes
- Ridley Scott to produce adaptation of Kate Mosse’s Labyrinth
US TV
- Playboy changes its name to The Playboy Club
- Elizabeth Perkins joins Vince Uncensored
- Will Arnett and Ricky Gervais to appear in The Office finale
- Laura Allen switches role in and Michaela McManus joins REM…
- …as does Cherry Jones, while Natasha Henstridge joins Secret Circle…
- …as does Louis Hunter
- Retired at 35 renewed, two pilots given series orders at TV Land
- Jeff Daniels to star in Aaron Sorkin’s HBO pilot
- Steven Weber to recur on Parenthood
- Arnie returning to TV?
- Kathryn Hahn to star in Free Agents…
- …as does Mo Mandel
Some of the best bits of Comic Relief – Doctor Who, Joanna Page and James Corden
Comic Relief was on Friday and as usual, there were some sketches from some well known shows, including Doctor Who.
But there was also a two-part sketch, written by Steven Moffat at his muckiest best:
Joanna Page was also doing her thing:
While Lenny Henry and Richard Curtis had to call in James Corden (Smithy from Gavin & Stacey) to help save the show, which he did with the assistance of George Michael among others:
And then there was Alan Partridge…
What was your favourite?